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Excitement was high that day as we prepared our first Christmas program for the indigenous tribe we had been sent to evangelize. They knew that the lowlanders celebrated Christmas by giving gifts and partying, but they had no idea why. This was our perfect opportunity to share the Christmas story with them.

We had learned that if we wanted to get a large turnout all we had to do was announce by word of mouth that we would be providing a feast or gifts to all that came and natives would come out of nowhere.

This afternoon’s program would be at a Pandurucan village. The Jeep couldn’t hold everyt...